New Comic: World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth #2 — Magni: “The Speaker”

Blizzard has published "The Speaker," a Battle for Azeroth comic on Magni Bronzebeard. This is the second of three comics leading up to the story of Battle for Azeroth.\r\rMagni, after becoming pure diamond at the beginning of Cataclysm, broke out of his prison at the beginning of Legion. He is now attuned as an envoy that talks on behalf of Azeroth, warning us of the systemic corruption the world-soul was slowly going through. \r\rMagni is slated to play a major role in Battle for Azeroth: As one of the only beings that know what Azerite is truly capable of, he provides players of both factions with Cuore di Azeroth, a gift from Azeroth herself, and pleads to both factions to attempt to heal Azeroth's massive wound, instead of exploiting Azerite for their own gains. Learn more about this system in the Heart of Azeroth Guide.\r\rIn this comic, we learn more about Magni's family. In between pondering how to help Azeroth, we see flashbacks of Magni interacting with his wife and teaching a young Moira how to fight. The challenges Magni faces in communicating with Azeroth parallel the difficulties he faces with Moira, who seized the opportunity to make a new life for herself with the Dark Iron Dwarves after feeling devalued by her father. You can learn more about Moira in the Legion comic "Fault Lines" and The Story of Moira Thaurissan (Bronzebeard) by Nobbel87.\r\rBelow are some excerpts showing Magni with his family:\r\r\r\r\rLast week Blizzard published "Reunion", a comic on Jaina Proudmoore. With an Alliance character and neutral character now covered, the 3rd comic will likely cover a Horde character.\r\rThe war with the Legion has left a terrible wound in Azeroth, one keenly felt by Magni Bronzebeard. He can no longer speak to the world\u2019s spirit; he can only hear her screams. Plagued by doubt, Magni journeys to Silithus, desperate to find of a way to rekindle his connection with the world.We invite you to downloand and read the free comic here. \r \rAboutWritten by Matt Burns and Illustrated by Katherine \u201cSuqling\u201d Chan, \u201cThe Speaker\u201d is the second in a series of comics leading up to the Battle for Azeroth.Matt Burns is a senior writer on Blizzard Entertainment\u2019s creative development team. During his time at the company, he has helped create a variety of fiction for the World of Warcraft, StarCraft, Diablo, and Overwatch universes. His projects include authoring Diablo III: Book of Tyrael and co-authoring the New York Times\u2013bestselling illustrated history series World of Warcraft Chronicle: Volumes I, II, and III. Katherine \u201cSuqling\u201d Chan is an illustrator from Singapore who mains support and utility classes in video games. She has worked on a variety of game-focused projects over the past two years, including the Heroes of the Storm comic \u201cRise of the Raven Lord,\u201d and actively creates fan art on her blog, www.suqling.tumblr.com.

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Commento di AlakeiThancan

on 2018-05-29T14:12:50-05:00

Personally, I can't access the link when I click it. Gives me the error code "DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN"

Commento di Wasselin

on 2018-05-29T14:23:05-05:00

This needs to be in game. I see no reason why they couldn't use this as a storyboard for in game cut scenes.\r\rI don't even like Magni but this comic took something as fantastical as a dwarf made of diamond speaking to the soul of a planet and made it relatable and human. \r\rThat needs to happen in game too.

Commento di perculia

on 2018-05-29T14:25:58-05:00

Personally, I can't access the link when I click it. Gives me the error code "DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN"\r\rThis was an error on Blizzard's end, we have fixed their typo.

Commento di Trollokdamus

on 2018-05-29T14:27:30-05:00

The Legion comic series had background music which made them even better. A pity they abandoned this practice.

Commento di MFInc

on 2018-05-29T14:28:13-05:00

Soooo... If Magni promised to caretake Azeroth...\rAzeroth definetly gonna run away with a Void Lord worshipping Titan (or DiamondBoi), isn't she? Well we are all f 'ed.

Commento di Draccy

on 2018-05-29T14:30:01-05:00

I can't recover from these feels.

Commento di Naythen12

on 2018-05-29T14:30:05-05:00

I know this has nothing to do with the comic, but the Xorothian cultists are channeling again and it ends on the 14th of june.

Commento di chrth

on 2018-05-29T14:30:14-05:00

Soooo... If Magni promised to caretake Azeroth...\rAzeroth definetly gonna run away with a Void Lord worshipping Titan (or DiamondBoi), isn't she? Well we are all f 'ed.\r\rI believe the point is that he won't make the same mistakes this time.

Commento di Nickname404

on 2018-05-29T14:36:09-05:00

I really hope Azeroth wouldn't be corrupted and Magni too. This comics is very heartwarming, now I don't want it stronger.

Commento di Sweart

on 2018-05-29T14:37:03-05:00

I know this has nothing to do with the comic, but the Xorothian cultists are channeling again and it ends on the 14th of june.\r\rThis comic convinced me even more that we\u2019ll be \u201cretiring\u201d our Artifacts in the next step by then (as in, doing the quest where we heal the Wound and our AP count goes screwy until the xpac launch).

Commento di ShuyinVardiz

on 2018-05-29T15:00:44-05:00

Moira was the sweetest child i've ever seen in a comic or fanart or whatever! I'd instantly trash my entire account if I could take the mistakes of the past from her that way. So adventurous, happy and cheerful, look at her - just beautiful!\r\rBut it feels like a failed story, it feels like Magni believes its over for him and his daugther instead of settling things with her once and for all as good as Moira could settle the killing of her husband in order to regain some kind of honest family bonds with her father. Magni did his wrongs, no doubts - and he never made it easy for her. But he would have given everything for her (besides madness stuff like sacrificing ironforge), why does this feels so much like he has given up all further opportunitys by "hiding" behind azeroth's fatal wounding? \r\rWell, maybe its just me..? Pretty comic though.

Commento di Daillemand

on 2018-05-29T15:13:31-05:00

Is the comic suggesting that Eimear (ex-wife of Magni) = Azeroth's soul ?\rAnd that this is the reason why Magni became the Speaker ?

Commento di 1213501

on 2018-05-29T15:18:09-05:00

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Commento di ShadedAce

on 2018-05-29T15:22:54-05:00

holy crap that ending was awesome, magni is the man. Very very very sad but really cool at the same time.

Commento di dr7swag

on 2018-05-29T15:28:14-05:00

Is the comic suggesting that Eimear (ex-wife of Magni) = Azeroth's soul ?\rAnd that this is the reason why Magni became the Speaker ?\r\rBeautiful thought. Me likes. But I dont get the point of these comics. apart from being pretty they really dont give any info. its like they are thinking loudly

Commento di Aldarix

on 2018-05-29T15:32:18-05:00

Is the comic suggesting that Eimear (ex-wife of Magni) = Azeroth's soul ?\rAnd that this is the reason why Magni became the Speaker ?\r\rI saw it as the story of him raising Moira and not actually being there for her, listening to her and as his brother says giving up when it gets too hard. He understands this from his past and commits to his acquired role as speaker.

Commento di SilverDragon234

on 2018-05-29T15:45:07-05:00

Eimear Bronzebeard, eh? Not a bad name for the former Queen of Khaz Modan, don't you think?

Commento di ilijamaslovar

on 2018-05-29T15:50:33-05:00

Magni is a terrible father. Not even taking care of the planets titan soul itself can fix that.

Commento di JaceDraccus

on 2018-05-29T15:58:42-05:00

Is the comic suggesting that Eimear (ex-wife of Magni) = Azeroth's soul ?\rAnd that this is the reason why Magni became the Speaker ?\r\rNo, it's just drawing a parallel between the present and Magni's past. He wasn't there for Moira when she needed him, so now he's vowing not to make that mistake again.\r\r\r\rBeautiful thought. Me likes. But I dont get the point of these comics. apart from being pretty they really dont give any info. its like they are thinking loudly\r\rYes. And? \r\rIt's just filling in a bit of background and character motivation.\r\r But it feels like a failed story, it feels like Magni believes its over for him and his daugther instead of settling things with her once and for all as good as Moira could settle the killing of her husband in order to regain some kind of honest family bonds with her father. Magni did his wrongs, no doubts - and he never made it easy for her. But he would have given everything for her (besides madness stuff like sacrificing ironforge), why does this feels so much like he has given up all further opportunitys by "hiding" behind azeroth's fatal wounding? \r\rWell, maybe its just me..? Pretty comic though.\r\rThey had the start of a reconciliation in Fault Lines. I don't think he's given up on Moira, just recognising how he failed her. But now he's determined not to make the same mistakes again.

Commento di Grazrug

on 2018-05-29T16:09:37-05:00

At least he realized the mistakes he made in the past. Some parents don't even do that and continue being %^&*ty.